[DaleD]

Hi Steve,

I have been mostly a lurker at BT-1 and here but so enjoy your enthusiasm in helping those on these forums. Your check-in encourages so many to tell of their weekly experiences that they wouldn’t otherwise share with those who need the information.

Your problems in selling your boat prompted me to tell you about my boat sale. I bought small 16 foot skiff in 1987. That year we had 211 inches of rain. At least every other day I trudged down to the dock with a large coffee can and bailed from two inches to 18 inches of water from the boat. I was in my third or fourth year of PD and handled the work pretty well physically but mentally expending all the energy and not being able to use the boat was quite discouraging. I decided to sell it to a co-worker who had lost his boat. A group had gone across the bay, I suspect to smoke some “wacky-tobacky”, and he didn’t tie his boat up. The tide came in and his boat floated away.

I agreed to sell him my boat for $300, my cost plus harbor fees. The Exxon Valdez oil spill occurred a short time later and he leased the skiff to Exxon for $300 per day. They paid him $15,000 for 50 days and never took the boat out of the harbor. He purchased a new pickup truck with his windfall.

If there is a windfall in the disposal of your boat, I hope you are the recipient!!

[rosebud]

I have been busy posting about glucose levels etc and hypo/hyper glycemic effect and my computer is not doing well and will probably pass away in the middle of a post one day soon. So I have been in everyones face this week. More than usual. I need to clean up my house...I've neglected everything since I got my glucometer. Thank you soooo much to all of you who have posted and shared their insights into what Everett and I are analyzing the heck out of. ZF has posted some good articles ( as far as I can understand them). Peggy posted about the dietician contact at the APDA site (???) not sure if that's the site. Rick has very tender fingers by now....sacrifice for the masses who could be helped by all this grassroots research. I still have this lousy cold etc. and tired too. But will rise again from the ashes!!!! Have you noticed we all go in cycles? It's Thanksgiving up here so I'd like to say I am thankful for all of you and the support and info this site generates. Thanks to DocJohn and associates for providing a place to exercise our minds and exchange ideas. It's incredibly appreciated

[stevem53]

Originally Posted by DaleD

Hi Steve,

I have been mostly a lurker at BT-1 and here but so enjoy your enthusiasm in helping those on these forums. Your check-in encourages so many to tell of their weekly experiences that they wouldn’t otherwise share with those who need the information.

Your problems in selling your boat prompted me to tell you about my boat sale. I bought small 16 foot skiff in 1987. That year we had 211 inches of rain. At least every other day I trudged down to the dock with a large coffee can and bailed from two inches to 18 inches of water from the boat. I was in my third or fourth year of PD and handled the work pretty well physically but mentally expending all the energy and not being able to use the boat was quite discouraging. I decided to sell it to a co-worker who had lost his boat. A group had gone across the bay, I suspect to smoke some “wacky-tobacky”, and he didn’t tie his boat up. The tide came in and his boat floated away.

I agreed to sell him my boat for $300, my cost plus harbor fees. The Exxon Valdez oil spill occurred a short time later and he leased the skiff to Exxon for $300 per day. They paid him $15,000 for 50 days and never took the boat out of the harbor. He purchased a new pickup truck with his windfall.

If there is a windfall in the disposal of your boat, I hope you are the recipient!!

Dale..Thanks for sharing that story..You have the same kind of luck that I have..